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What is stress? Stress to me is a state of mental or emotional strain and or tension which results from any adverse or extremely demanding circumstances. It is also worry caused by problems in my life or in work, even in school and in traffic (whether we drive or not we still get stressed). I believe everyone has stress and we are more than willing to distribute it. I learned from the CDC or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that says “90% of illness and disease is stress related.” I believe we are prone to be stressed before we are even born due to the fact that if our mothers are constantly stressed, then that is something we can fell inside of her womb. That is because stress is communicated through the nervous system. This only gets worse as we get older. As we get it older it affects or health and takes a major toll on our body. Although we all are stressed out over many different issues there are many ways to manage it. Once, we have a control over the stress in our lives and we are the only ones to prevent it, then we have to make decisions on how to manage it.

I like how we started out this course on taking the Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale, which some people know as the Social Readjustment Rating Scale or SRRS. This is a list of everyday common stresses that affect anyone. If you have never taken this, then I will explain what it is. This stress scale comes with a number score beside the event and you check the occasion that you have gone through with in the last year or the ones that you are experiencing. Once, you have completed the scale then you add up all the occasions that you marked. Once, you have your total it will tell you in which stress category you fall. There are three levels: the highest level is “300+ points will mean that you have a high or very high risk of becoming ill in the near future; 299 to 150 points is the moderate level and that means you have a moderate to high chance of becoming ill in the near future, and the...

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